Photographs by Etienne Gilfillan of London ’s 2015 batch of new cinema initiatives, including the Picturehouse Central and Curzon Bloomsbury arthouse-circuit flagships, and the independent Regent Street, Deptford and Close Up cinemas.
Friday 17 July 2015

With a countdown of the top ten films from our 2014 Documentary Poll screening at the BFI Southbank through July and August, we put together this browsable dossier of writings about the films from our archives.

Watching an encounter between the nonfiction jammer behind The Look of Silence and the mashup reporter who made The Power of Nightmares, Robert Greene wonders if cinema and fact must make uncomfortable bedfellows?
Tuesday 14 July 2015

Opening nights: new British cinemas

Photographs by Etienne Gilfillan of London ’s 2015 batch of new cinema initiatives, including the Picturehouse Central and Curzon Bloomsbury arthouse-circuit flagships, and the independent Regent Street, Deptford and Close Up cinemas.
Friday 17 July 2015

In the first of our video reports about new London cinemas, Edward Lawrenson speaks to Deptford Cinema’s Edwin Mingard about volunteer-run exhibition in the high-rent city, and the virtues of community-led programming.
Friday 17 July 2015

In the second of our video reports about London’s 2015 batch of cinema initiatives, Edward Lawrenson sees and hears a valorous defence of celluloid film projection from Close Up Cinema’s Damien Sanville.
Friday 17 July 2015